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Earshot AI

Offline iPhone translation with bilingual PDF export

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Translate conversations, text, photos and text-based PDFs on your iPhone, then keep the original and translation in a bilingual PDF. Earshot includes its translation model and keeps translation content on-device. US$4.99 once, with no account, subscription, IAP or ads. Requires iOS 17+. Speech features depend on local language resources. Available in eligible markets. Bundled-model use excludes the EU, UK and South Korea.

PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: translation and localization tools · 195 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Languages
  • Artificial Intelligence

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Could you build this?

Partial The iPhone UI, PDF export, and document handling are vibe-codeable, but the offline translation model is the hard core. Using Apple's on-device Translation framework covers basic cases, while a custom model with competitive quality needs ML expertise.

What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI app with Vision for OCR, PDFKit for bilingual PDFs, and speech input. For the translation engine, either use Apple's Translation framework or ship a quantized open-weight MT model (e.g., via Core ML or MLX). A competitive custom model requires ML engineers who can fine-tune and compress translation models, plus multilingual evaluation data.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 706 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #107 of 707 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.

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